Track Listing 1. Frustration 2. Tainted Love 3. Seedy Films 4. Youth 5. Sex Dwarf 6. Entertain Me 7. Chips On My Shoulder 8. Bedsitter 9. Secret Life 10. Say Hello Wave Goodbye 11. Persuasion 12. Man Could Get Lost 13. Where Did Our Love Go 14. Memorabilia 15. Facility Girls 16. Fun City 17. Torch 18. Insecure Me 19. What 20. So
1. Memorabilia (non stop ecstatic dancing version) 2. Where Did Our Love Go (non stop ecstatic dancing version) 3. What 4. Man Could Get Lost 5. Chips On My Shoulder (non stop ecstatic dancing version) 6. Sex Dwarf (non stop ecstatic dancing version) 7. Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go (extended version) 8. Memorabilia (extended version) 9. What (extended version/non stop ecstatic dancing edit) 10. So (extended version) 11. Torch (extended version) 12. Insecure Me (extended version) 13. Tainted Dub/Where Did Our Love Go 14. Bedsitter (extended version) 15. Facility Girls (12" single extended version) 16. Say Hello Wave Goodbye (instrumental) 17. Say Hello Wave Goodbye (extended version)
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 2 | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Universal Music | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes Contains bonus tracks.Soft Cell: Marc Almond (vocals); David Ball (various instruments).Additional personnel: David Tofani (saxophone, clarinet); The Vicious Pink Phenomena (background vocals).Recorded at Camden Cell Studios, London, England.As with so many groups of their time and place--synthesizer-obsessed England in the early '80s--Soft Cell's first album is also their best. NON-STOP EROTIC CABARET is a self-consciously seedy but nonetheless delightful excursion into knowing decadence. The artifice is plain--Marc Almond's coyly melodramatic vocals and Dave Ball's witty synths suggest that you shouldn't take this album seriously for a moment--but the songs are mostly strong enough to make this a satisfying album. The hyperspeed "Frustration" careens directly to the glorious "Tainted Love," an archetype of '80s pop music unmatched by anything else the duo ever did, though "Bedsitter," "Sex Dwarf" and the blatantly sentimental "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" come close.
Editorial Reviews Included in CMJ's list of Top 25 College Radio Albums of All TimeCMJ (1/5/04, p.8) - Ranked #1 in CMJ's Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1982.CMJ (1/6/03, p.12) - Included in CMJ's list of Top 25 College Radio Albums of All Time CMJ (01/06/2003)
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